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      "body": "You didn't get my point at all... Reputation is what matters. Not money. If reputation can be bought / transferred... well, this is a flaw to me.\n\nComparison with steemit? I don't see the point. Steem maybe, but not steemit in any case. But remember, Steem is not a platform for science. So you compare apples to pears.\n\nYou may be good in economics, I am no one to judge that (and I have never done it). What is clear to me is that your vision of the world of science is quite far from reality.\n\n> In which case, I'd say that your opinion is in the far minority.\n\nWell if you think so... Not my problem.",
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      "body": "No idea how to elaborate that. I don't see sustainable investments into a limited-use, inflationary token with permanent selling pressure and no clear benefit for the investors happening, that's all. Steem works because it targets _everyone_, your target audience is way too small to build that kind of traction.\n\nBesides, your plan to solve problems that arise in open decentralized environments with solutions \"like\" a proprietary system gives me the impression that your Devil's advocate may have been a bit biased towards yourself.\n\nTime will tell I assume. Good luck with your endeavor!",
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      "body": "What's the final use case of the currency that makes someone invest fiat into it? <<<< Not sure what you mean by this. Can you please elaborate?\n\nSteem Power represents more voting power. The more you have, the more influence you have over the distribution of awards. \n\nAt Lab Ledger, Scholar Points (the equivalent of Steem Power) represents influence over the distribution of rewards. Users will also have a unique \"Influence Score\" that will be compartmentalized towards their specific field (meaning influence can't cross \"subject borders\". \n\nIt will work very similarly to Google Pagerank. So you could think of it as a hybrid between Google Pagerank and Steemit. \n\nHow are we going to prevent circle jerking? The same way Google does- paid links, particularly among centralized monopolies who hold a lot of Page Rank, hold no little to no weight. Just one example of many. \n\nTrust me: every problem running through your head we've thought of THOUSANDS of times. We've played Devil's advocate over our idea more than you possibly ever could- and that has provided us with many promising solutions. \n\nAlso, if you think of anything novel that could go wrong, we'd love to hear it, but then we'll fix it and make our platform better. So please, any feedback is appreciated. \n\nAs of now, we haven't heard anything new or novel, although we do appreciate the feedback.",
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      "body": "Hi, if you understand SteemIt, then you understand where the money comes from: inflation. Like SteemIt, we pay researchers to A) Publish scientific papers and B) Collaborate (comment) on them. Approximately 75% of LAB tokens minted will be seeded into the rewards pool. We are actually nearly identical in economic model as SteemIt, so we have a well-tested, sound economic system backing us up. Also, I think you're misunderstanding how it works: the reputation isn't a transferable token. Can you transfer Steem Power? No, you can't. Likewise, you can't transfer Scholar Points. We are utilizing the best economic system by far for incentivizing honest scientific peer review and progress. If you feel otherwise, please provide evidence and or sound reasoning.",
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      "body": "Wow, one more project claiming to fund science. So we're at 3 of those by now.\n\nhttp://deip.world\nhttp://scienceroot.com\n\nI wonder what you guys think where the money will come from. But I guess the economy of the token is a minor issue after the ICO. \n\nIt does not need a token to solve the issues with publishing. The reward for a scientist is his reputation. Which is a joke if you base it on a transferable token. \n\nI got to admit, having worked on [PEvO](https://pevo.science) for nearly 2 years now I'm kinda biased, and seriously frustrated that it's not possible to get people collaborating on blockchain projects that don't include an ICO.",
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      "body": "I am saying I have currently alternatives that seem preferable. For the moment and from what I read from your project, I won't change. I am however looking forward to be surprized, as I am a generally open-minded person ;)",
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      "body": "It wouldn't be a valuable use of my time to convince someone who already has their mind made up, wouldn't you agree? Assuming there isn't anything I could say to change your mind, I'll leave it at this: good luck in your endeavors, and in a year please check back on our progress and you'll be pleasantly surprised. Cheers.",
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      "body": "I am afraid this does not answer my questions...\n - Why should I invest my research time in commenting articles on your platform? The question holds for any scientist.\n - Why should I publish something on your platform to start with? I have other (and potentially much better) alternatives. The question also holds for any scientist. \n\nThings are really not clear to me. I cannot foresee how the scientists will come to labledger and grows your database. Just like that?\n\n> The papers themselves will accumulate money that the real-world author can claim once they sign up for the site. That's just one idea we've had of many. We're also going to include bounties for solving problems in specific fields, and possibly our own version of a \"Nobel Prize\".\n\nThis reinforces my initial thoughts. You may be slightly far off the real concerns of the scientific world (at least the part of it I know).\n\n> Hopefully you'll be one of them :)\n\nI am sorry but not for now. I have way better alternatives. Please have a look to the arxiv or scipost to start with. Your platform can't compete with these.",
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      "body": "I agree 100%. If reputation can be bought, it could possibly have a negative affect on the quality of the research being published. This is why we've been working on an economic model that mimics the real world- scientists will have to earn their reputation through commenting/collaboration or publishing. Curating won't provide you with any significant amount of influence (if any at all). They also won't be able to \"buy\" their reputation past a certain threshold. \n\nAlso, the amount of influence that you're able to pass on will decrease proportionally as you move further and further away from your core field of expertise. So, for instance, if you're a chemist, your influence will hold less weight when commenting on a paper about developmental psychology. However, your influence will still probably hold decent weight in organic chemistry. \n\nTo address your last point: how do we plan on bringing scientists to the platform? One idea that we had is publish hundreds of thousands of research papers from a database onto Lab Ledger in order to populate it with content. Once the research papers are uploaded, users can begin curating and commenting on them.\n\nThe papers themselves will accumulate money that the real-world author can claim once they sign up for the site. That's just one idea we've had of many. We're also going to include bounties for solving problems in specific fields, and possibly our own version of a \"Nobel Prize\". \n\nWe're quite motivated and we are making big connections in the scientific industry. This time next year we'll have a lot of traction and I predict we'll have many scientists on the platform.\n\nHopefully you'll be one of them :)",
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      "body": "Reputation is very important. But if reputation can be bought, this won't work. Anyone from the outside world could come and buy his/her reputation (from how I understood how your platform is supposed to work, reputation can indeed be bought).\n\nHere, you start from zero. No well-known editors will be on board and no well-known scientists. So my question is how to attract legit scientists and how having them on board? Prestige/money is not enough. Please tell me why I should come, for instance?",
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      "body": "Hi, thanks for the reply. As far as not getting paid, that's fine. However, I would imagine that you care about your reputation, right? Similar to SteemIt, users can choose to keep their Lab Dollars vested as Scholar Points to keep their influence/reputation high. So, even if they're not getting paid with money, they're getting paid with prestige (there should be at least one present- pay or prestige). Also, we should consider: what incentivizes good peer review? \n\nAt the point, it's purely impact/integrity. If someone peer reviews poorly, there's little to no resource. In Lab Ledger, if someone peer reviews poorly, they are directly hurting the network and thus, all of the Scholar Points they have vested. Thus, they are economically incentivized to peer review. Even if a scientist has all the money in the world, they will still value the influence they are able to acquire on the platform.",
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      "body": "I didn't read your whitepaper in details (will do next week, just browsed it for now), but my two cents. \n\nI don't care of not being paid for peer-reviewing (and many don't care too).  This is a part of the job. However, I don't peer review anything for non-open-access journals. I believe that You put too much emphasis on the money, and this may open the door to abuses. A free from money open-access platform will win, IMO. And this already exists.\n\nBy the way, you mention that it costs something to read a paper. This is wrong. Open access journals exist all over the place.\n\nAnd some food for thoughts to finish. You may be missing one possibility: public reviews with anonymous reviewer.\n\nFinally, using your platform for jobs, research funding, etc.. How realistic will this be? Funding a PhD student in Europe is give or take 120.000 EUR. This is a lot of money. Postdoc positions are even more expensive. And not even talking about building experimental apparatus. In some fields, one needs millions...",
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Eight years later, Nature continues to dominate the industry.\n\nFor those who believe things will get better on their own: 1) I salute your optimism, and 2) The scientific publishing industry is worth an estimated $25 billion - they’re not going to leave the bar without throwing a few punches.\n\n<h2><b>Come Down The Rabbit Hole With Me</b></h2>\n<center>![](https://i.imgsafe.org/22/22a29627d3.jpeg)</center>\n\nAs beautifully stated by Morpheus in the 1999 Hollywood hit, The Matrix:\n\n*“You take the <b>blue pill</b> — the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the <b>red pill</b> — you stay in Wonderland, and I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes. Remember: all I’m offering is the truth.” —  Morpheus*\n\nWhat do you say?\n\nAre you ready to see what’s really happening in the scientific publishing industry?\n\nOr would you rather put on the blinders and pretend everything’s going to be okay?\n\nAm I being overdramatic? In my opinion, no. This is a very serious problem that affects all of us. It should be addressed before these monopolies accrue more power. Otherwise, the generations after us, and even our own, will suffer.\n\n<h2><b>The Era of Scientific Gatekeepers</b></h2>\n\nPeer review has only been around for a few hundred years, and within that timespan, has become a monopolized mess. I call it the “era of scientific gatekeepers” because A) It has nice ring to it, and B) It’s true.\n\n<center>![](https://i.imgsafe.org/22/22a2c52887.jpeg)</center>\n\nIn Science, another high-profile journal, your chances of getting accepted are just 7%. Numbers like this are fairly consistent across the board. With such a high rejection rate, authors resort to publishing in low-profile journals that garner minimal traffic.\n\nYou’re probably thinking, “*Okay, but they’re rejecting for a reason. The other 93% of papers must be low quality*”.\n\nNope.\n\nScientific journals are notorious for rejecting famous papers. George A. Akerlof, a Nobel Prize-winning economist, had his paper “The Market For Lemons” rejected several times before finally getting accepted.\n\nIn 2015, it was shown that the top medical journals rejected 14 out of 14 of the top cited articles of all time within their respective fields.\n\nEnrico Fermi’s paper on weak interaction (a fundamental force of nature) was rejected by Nature for being “too remote from reality”. That same paper helped him win the Nobel Prize in physics in 1938.\n\nThe list goes on an on. Which begs the question: why do scientific journals charge so much? Because scientists have to publish consistently to sustain their careers.\n\nJournals aren’t stupid. They know that researchers, especially young ones, must “publish or perish”. That’s why journals are able to charge $1,350 to $5,000 per paper and get away with it.\n\n<center>![](https://i.imgsafe.org/22/22b74032bb.jpeg)</center>\n\nTo make matters worse, the entire process can take years. Researchers can’t afford to wait that long, otherwise, they risk getting surpassed in status by their peers.\n\n<h2><b>Scientific Journals Have Insanely High Profit Margins</b></h2>\n\nI don’t think people realize just how profitable the scientific journal industry is. In 2010, Elsevier, a major journal in the space, reported profits of £724 million with a revenue of £2 billion. That’s a 36% profit margin. That same year, Google, Apple, and Amazon all reported profit margins lower than 36%.\n\nIn the publishing industry, that’s high. Take, for instance, magazine companies. Their profit margins are about 13.5%, nearly 3x lower than some journals. Despite a similar business model, the numbers are vastly different. The question is, why?\n\nThe answer: free labor.\n\nBefore a paper gets published, it must go through a process called peer review. The role of a peer reviewer is to judge a paper’s merit. It’s their job to let the journal know whether a paper is fit for publication.\n\n<center>![](https://i.imgsafe.org/22/22b6fe4462.jpeg)</center>\n\nIt’s a time-consuming and mentally-taxing role- and that’s putting it mildly. Most scientists are very busy. They teach, mentor, and conduct their own research.\n\nOne would assume that peer reviewers get paid for their efforts. Unfortunately, this isn’t the case. These roles are filled by working scientists on a volunteer basis. It’s estimated that unpaid peer review is worth £1.9 billion.\n\nHow, then, do journals reward scientists? By charging them pricey subscription fees for content they created. It’s the epitome of the classic idiom “biting the hand that feeds you”. Remember, the journals pay nothing for peer reviewers or research papers. It’s no wonder why their profit margins are so high!\n\n<b>Update</b>: I just realized that Elsevier’s profits have increased from £724 million/year to over £900 million/year. For all you optimists out there, do you still believe things will get better on their own?\n\n<h2><b>Journals Only Care About New and Spectacular Results</b></h2>\n<center>![](https://i.imgsafe.org/22/22a2ca39cb.jpeg)</center>\n\nFor journals, it’s all about publishing exciting discoveries. After all, they’re in the business of selling subscriptions. They can’t do this by publishing “boring” research. Papers must have a certain “wow factor”, otherwise, they get rejected.\n\nAccording to a 2013 study, 50% of all clinical trials in the U.S. never get published. This means that thousands of clinical trials go unreported.\n\nWhy is this bad?\n\nBecause it leads to redundant research. When clinical trials don’t get reported, scientists don’t know what’s been tried and what hasn’t. As a result, they waste time and money performing unnecessary experiments.\n\nYou might think, “*Well, it’s the researchers’ fault for not reporting their findings*”.\n\nI disagree.\n\nWhile it’s easy to blame the researchers, we must remember: scientific journals favor papers that show positive results. It’s rare for them to publish negative findings. This leaves little incentive to report anything but positive findings.\n\nCompare the following approaches:\n\n<center>![](https://i.imgsafe.org/22/22a2924b4c.jpeg)</center>\n\nIn Figure 1, which is the most common approach taken by journals, only experiments with positive results are published. In Figure 2, all results- negative and positive- are published.\n\nA common rebuttal against Figure 2 is, “Negative data can’t be trusted”. As pointed out in a 2013 article, negative data is statistically more trustworthy than positive data.\n\n“What gets us into trouble is not what we don’t know, it’s what we know for sure that just ain’t so.” — Mark Twain.\n\n<h2><b>The Current Peer Review Model is Biased</b></h2>\n\nMost scientific journals use single blind peer review. This means the author’s identity is revealed while the reviewer’s is hidden. Unfortunately, it can lead to favoritism- particularly towards senior scientists.\n\nIn this report (http://publishingresearchconsortium.com/index.php/prc-documents/prc-research-projects/36-peer-review-full-prc-report-final/file), the acceptance rate of a prestigious researcher’s paper was 87% with their identity revealed, but only 68% with their identity hidden. In other words, the author’s prestige skewed the reviewer’s opinion of the paper.\n\n<h2><b>How Can Blockchain Fix This Mess?</b></h2>\n\nScientists around the world deserve financial empowerment and better connectivity. However, they can’t acquire this while centralized scientific journals still exist. The middleman has to go, and blockchain is the perfect way to make that happen.\n\n<h2><b>Our Solution — Incentivized Post Publication Peer Review</b></h2>\n<center>![](https://i.imgsafe.org/22/22a2a84e95.jpeg)</center>\n\nThe model we are proposing is <b>Incentivized Post Publication Peer Review</b>. It’s simply an incentivized version of the standard post publication peer review model.\n\nRemember, peer reviewers aren’t paid. They also don’t receive any notoriety. Without pay or prestige, there’s little incentive, aside from integrity and/or impact, to do a good job.\n\nAsk yourself: if you had to devote yourself to a project without pay or prestige, would you do it? 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